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Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • young weakly persons
  • anmic and chlorotic
  • pseudo-plethora
  • flush easily
  • cold extremities
  • oversensitiveness
  • worse after any active effort
  • weakness from mere speaking or walking
  • pallor of skin
  • pallor of mucous membranes
  • pallor of face
  • alternating with flushes
  • orgasms of blood to face
  • orgasms of blood to chest
  • orgasms of blood to head
  • orgasms of blood to lungs
  • irregular distribution of blood
  • muscles flabby and relaxed
  • irritability
  • slight noises unbearable
  • excited from slightest opposition
  • sanguine temperament
  • vertigo on seeing flowing water
  • stinging headache
  • ringing in ears before menses
  • hammering headache
  • pulsating headache
  • congestive headache
  • pain extends to teeth
  • cold extremities with headache
  • pain in back of head
  • roaring in neck
  • scalp painful
  • must take down the hair
  • watery eyes
  • dull red eyes
  • photophobia
  • letters run together
  • fiery-red face
  • flushed face from least pain
  • flushed face from least emotion
  • flushed face from least exertion
  • red parts become white
  • bloodless face
  • puffy face
  • mucous membrane relaxed
  • boggy nose
  • anmic nose
  • pale nose
  • pain in teeth
  • teeth relieved by icy-cold water
  • earthy taste
  • pasty taste
  • taste like rotten eggs
  • voracious appetite
  • absolute loss of appetite
  • loathing of sour things
  • attempts to eat bring on diarrha
  • spits up food by the mouthful
  • eructations of food after eating
  • no nausea with eructations
  • nausea after eating
  • vomiting after eating
  • vomiting immediately after eating
  • vomiting after midnight
  • intolerance of eggs
  • distention in the stomach after eating
  • pressure in the stomach after eating
  • heat in stomach
  • burning in stomach
  • soreness of abdominal walls
  • flatulent dyspepsia
  • undigested stool
  • stool at night
  • stool while eating
  • stool while drinking
  • painless stool
  • ineffectual urging
  • stool hard
  • backache after stool
  • cramping pain in rectum
  • prolapsus recti
  • itching of anus
  • itching of anus in young children
  • involuntary urine
  • worse urinary symptoms daytime
  • tickling in urethra extending to bladder
  • menses remit a day or two then return
  • discharge of long pieces from uterus
  • women who are weak
  • women who are delicate
  • women who are chlorotic
  • women with a fiery-red face
  • menses too early
  • menses too profuse
  • menses last too long
  • menses pale
  • menses watery
  • sensitive vagina
  • tendency to abortion
  • prolapse of vagina
  • chest oppressed
  • breathing difficult
  • surging of blood to chest
  • hoarseness
  • cough dry
  • cough spasmodic
  • hmoptysis
  • pain in occiput with cough
  • palpitation
  • worse palpitation movement
  • sense of oppression
  • anmic murmur
  • pulse full
  • pulse soft and yielding
  • pulse small and weak
  • heart suddenly bleeds into the blood vessels
  • heart suddenly draws a reflux
  • pallor of surface
  • rheumatism of the shoulder
  • dropsy after loss of vital fluids
  • lumbago
  • better lumbago slow walking
  • pain in hip-joint
  • pain in tibia
  • pain in soles
  • pain in heel
  • pale skin
  • skin flushes readily
  • skin pits on pressure
  • general coldness of extremities
  • head hot
  • face hot
  • chill at 4 am
  • heat in palms
  • heat in soles
  • profuse sweat
  • debilitating sweat
  • better walking slowly about
  • better after rising
  • worse while sweating
  • worse while sitting still
  • after cold washing aggravation
  • after overheating aggravation
  • midnight aggravation

Allen's Keynotes

  • persons of sanguine temperament
  • pettish, quarrelsome, disputative, easily excited, least contradiction angers
  • better from mental exertion
  • irritability: slight noises like crackling of paper drive him to despair
  • women who are weak, delicate, chlorotic, yet have a fiery red face
  • extreme paleness of the face, lips and mucous membranes which becomes red and flushed on the least pain, emotion or exertion
  • blushing
  • erethitic chlorosis, worse in winter
  • red parts become white; face, lips, tongue and mucous membrane of mouth
  • vertigo: with balancing sensation, as if on water
  • vertigo: on seeing flowing water
  • vertigo: when walking over water, as when crossing a bridge
  • vertigo: on descending
  • headache: hammering, beating, pulsating pains, must lie down
  • headache: with aversion to eating or drinking
  • headache: for two, three or four days every two or three weeks
  • menses: too early, too profuse, too long lasting, with fiery red face
  • menses: ringing in the ears
  • menses: intermit two or three days and then return
  • menses: flow pale, watery, debilitating
  • haemorrhagic diathesis; blood bright red, coagulates easily
  • regurgitation and eructation of food in mouthfuls without nausea
  • canine hunger, or loss of appetite, with extreme dislike for all food
  • vomiting: immediately after midnight
  • vomiting: of ingesta, as soon as food is eaten
  • vomiting: leaves table suddenly and with one effort vomits everything eaten, can sit down and eat again
  • vomiting: sour, acid
  • diarrhoea: undigested stools at night, or while eating or drinking
  • diarrhoea: painless with a good appetite
  • diarrhoea: of consumptives
  • constipation: from intestinal atony
  • constipation: ineffectual urging
  • constipation: stools hard, difficult, followed by backache or cramping pain in rectum
  • constipation: prolapsus recti of children
  • constipation: itching on anus at night
  • always feels better by walking slowly about, although weakness obliges the patient to lie down
  • cough only in the day time
  • cough: relieved by lying down
  • cough: better by eating
  • dropsy; after loss of vital fluids
  • dropsy: abuse of quinine
  • dropsy: suppressed intermittent
  • worse at night
  • worse at rest, especially while sitting still
  • better walking slowly about
  • better in summer

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